Forward error correction (FEC) technology developer Digital Fountain Inc. has signed a licensing deal with Nokia. This agreement allows Nokia to incorporate Digital Fountain's advanced FEC technology in future Nokia products.

Digital Fountain's latest generation of patented FEC technology, called DF Raptor, supports the efficient delivery of data files or multimedia streams even in the presence of high packet loss. By comparison to other FEC technologies, DF Raptor minimizes processing requirements and the use of transmission bandwidth while providing essentially unlimited flexibility in loss protection, said the developer. By enabling reliable delivery of content over a wide range of adverse network conditions, DF Raptor allows network operators to maximize service quality to their subscribers.

Suitable for a wide range of applications and requirements, DF Raptor offers a highly scalable media delivery solution ensuring the complete and error-free reception of content with low processing requirements for multimedia streaming and data transfer applications. Other features include flexible parameter and implementation choices to best suit actual levels of packet loss as seen by the end user, low overhead for bandwidth efficiency, high code efficiency in correcting lost packets, and equal protection to all end users irrespective of individual end user packet loss patterns

A version of DF Raptor was recently selected by 3GPP, the Third Generation Partnership Project, as a component of the worldwide standards for 3G high-speed wireless networks. DF Raptor is part of the first release of the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) standards, enabling 3G wireless broadcast video and file transfer services. By protecting MBMS signals from packet loss, DF Raptor enhances the overall user experience and assures the service provider that multimedia content will be delivered in its entirety without glitches or defects.

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